17 Oct
2002
17 Oct
'02
8:05 p.m.
After much pondering and debate, I have finally decided on a name for
my Cromemco System Two. Once she is operational, she shall be
christened as Mintaka.
Okay, so that isn't really an earthshaking event or anything like
that, but system naming is one of those little geeky activities that
I get some strange enjoyment out of.
Ironically, the first name that came to mind was Altair; then I
instantly remembered that that name was already used as a brand name
for an old S-100 girl, so I decided on Mintaka, to keep with the
stellar theme.
So, uhm, anyway...I guess there wasn't much point ot this post
afterall. :p
Later!
-- Scarletdown
18 Oct
18 Oct
6:24 p.m.
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6:53 p.m.
Hi Tony,
Just out of curiousity, how many other people here
name their classic
computers (for reasons other than giving them a network address)
My original Commodore XT was called "Slug", my Commodore PC 40 was calleed
"Slug II", it's kinda stuck - the cuurnt machine (2 GHz AMD) is called
"Slug
VII". Oh yeah, "Slug" still chugs along too :-)
Back then, I had an A1000 ("Amy" - so original!) & "Slug", she was
called
that because the A1000 was soooo much faster.
Nowadays Slug VII does a good job emulating Amy several times faster than
she ever ran. <sigh>
Mind you, Amy still gets fired up so I can play my all time favourite
Monopoly game written in ABasiC :-)
The Linux server is called "Bag Lady" - most of her (recycled) components
came to me in a canvas bag.....
cheers,
Lance
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7:38 p.m.
After much
pondering and debate, I have finally decided on a name for
my Cromemco System Two. Once she is operational, she shall be
christened as Mintaka.
Just out of curiousity, how many other people here name their classic
computers (for reasons other than giving them a network address) 
19 Oct
19 Oct
8:43 a.m.
I have to confess to this rather strange behavior.
My first really classic machine, a HP2114A, had a sticker on its front
panel that has apparently been
left there by some vistor on an ancient tour.
It read 'Hi, I'm Henry', so that machine became known as Henry, and most
all of my subsequent HP machines got related names (like my first 2116
becaome O'Henry, etc.). The one exception to this rule was my first
2113, apparently inhabited by gremlins, earned the name 'Demon Child'.
But now that I have a small pile of spare CPU's, I've stopped naming them.
Tony Duell wrote:
After much
pondering and debate, I have finally decided on a name for
my Cromemco System Two. Once she is operational, she shall be
christened as Mintaka.
Just out of curiousity, how many other people here name their classic
computers (for reasons other than giving them a network address)
-tony
8:44 a.m.
I have to confess to this rather strange behavior.
My first really classic machine, a HP2114A, had a sticker on its front
panel that has apparently been
left there by some vistor on an ancient tour.
It read 'Hi, I'm Henry', so that machine became known as Henry, and most
all of my subsequent HP machines got related names (like my first 2116
becaome O'Henry, etc.). The one exception to this rule was my first
2113, apparently inhabited by gremlins, earned the name 'Demon Child'.
But now that I have a small pile of spare CPU's, I've stopped naming them.
Tony Duell wrote:
After much
pondering and debate, I have finally decided on a name for
my Cromemco System Two. Once she is operational, she shall be
christened as Mintaka.
Just out of curiousity, how many other people here name their classic
computers (for reasons other than giving them a network address)
-tony
21 Oct
21 Oct
9:53 p.m.
Just out of curiousity, how many other people here
name their classic
computers (for reasons other than giving them a network address)
-tony
Some OSes propose the name foo, but because I can't name all my machines
foo, I added something to 'foo' that shows what machine it is.
My first computer with network was netfoo, but it's gone, now i have:
foorouter(obvious),fastfoo (AMD Duron), solarisfoo(SS10), ipxfoo(ipx),
ipxfootwo, pentiumfoo, mipsfoo(DECstation), fastvaxfoo(VAXstation4k90),
netvaxfoo(uVAX II, netbooted), pdpfoo(pdp11/93) and fooeleven(pdp11/83).
--lothar
19 Oct
19 Oct
4:33 p.m.
Am I the only one who names my (network) machines "#1", "#2", etc?
Jeffrey H. Ingber (jingber(a)ix.netcom.com)
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 21:01, Scarletdown wrote:
After much pondering and debate, I have finally
decided on a name for
my Cromemco System Two. Once she is operational, she shall be
christened as Mintaka.
Okay, so that isn't really an earthshaking event or anything like
that, but system naming is one of those little geeky activities that
I get some strange enjoyment out of.
Ironically, the first name that came to mind was Altair; then I
instantly remembered that that name was already used as a brand name
for an old S-100 girl, so I decided on Mintaka, to keep with the
stellar theme.
So, uhm, anyway...I guess there wasn't much point ot this post
afterall. :p
Later!
-- Scarletdown
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